Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 12/29/2010
This Sharps carbine, .52 caliber, was confiscated following John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry.
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As a boy of five, John Brown witnessed a slave his own age being beaten with a fire shovel....
abolitionism, slavery, Beecher's, Arsenal, Virginia, Bibles, West Virginia, Brown, John, weapon, rifle, arsenal, raid, Abolitionism, abolition, Harpers Ferry, slave revolt, Act, Civil War, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas
The story of a group of slaves' escape on the underground railroad by following directions from t...
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